Should smoking be allowed during late night hours in certain restaurants? Why or why not?

Question

Please give me at least three detail reasons why or why not?

Answer 1

Smoking should be allowed at all times of the day in restaurants if the owner decides that is the way it should be. I don't know when people got the idea that we have the right to not be offended, but everyone cries about things like this. What ever happened to supply and demand? It is simple if enough people in a town decide they want to go to the bar, but don't want to be around smoke, then someone will open a smoke free bar. You don't force your views down other people's throats whether they like it or not. If you don't want to be around smoke then stay home. When you shove your views down people's throats like that, it has a name, facism.

Answer 2

just because it is late at night doesn't make it any better. you want 3 reasons, here they are:
1. smoking is hazardous to those non-smoker guests around them, and to the employees regardless of time of day. Not to mention I enjoy going out to a bar and not having to come home reeking of smoke. I have not been a smoker in years and I do not miss the smell.
2. smokers actually REDUCE the revenue of the business because they stay longer. Adding a dessert to the bill does not equal a new guest sitting in that seat and ordering a meal. From being in the business I can tell you first hand that we were able to turn tables a lot faster and increase guests/hour after a smoking ban went into effect.
3. not knowing what you mean by 'late night hours' and 'certain restaurants' I will make the assumption that you mean roughly after 9pm, and if it was made an option to the business. The problem their is the concept of an uneven playing field. If there were 2 bar&grills next door to each other and one was smoke-free and one allowed it then the one that allows smoking has an unfair advantage. The smoke-free establishment would have to allow a smoking section in order to stay competitive and now you are back at square one with everyone allowing smoking.

Answer 3

The anti-smoking crowd has been well indoctrinated. Not educated. Second hand smoke is a trumped up pack of lies that is making a lot of money for a handful of people and smokers are paying an outrageous tax that is suppose to go toward medical causes but which not a single penny has been put toward any medical program. The absolute fact is that the smoke from a grills cookeries are more hazardous to your health than any cigarette. The food you eat in a restaurant is more likely to get your sick, obese or lead to a heart attack or stroke. Traveling to and from the restaurant, you are one hundred times more likely to be killed if you drive. 50 times more likely if you walk. Yet, your chances of feeling even mildly sick from another patrons cigarette smoke is 35,000 to 1. If non-smokers are so adament, then why do non-smoking restaurants and bars fail? With the imposition of law, businesses have collapsed, jobs have been lost and city revenues have declined. The state of Illinois registered a loss of 19 billion dollars, 50,000 jobs lost and over 20,000 businesses closed, when they imposed their taxation and smoking bans. I live in Arizona, where the same thing is happening. Bars and restaurants are losing patrons and people are losing jobs. Smoking bans have showed us one thing. People are sheep, and incapable of deciding for themselves. A terrible shame.

Answer 4

It should be up to the descretion of the restaurant owner, not the government to make that descision. Why because in some areas like a little town in the plains. A restaurant owner could go out of business for the loss of his customers. If his local population are primarily smokers. The government does not know what goes on in those parts.

Also alot of commercial businesses are mutli-purpose, for example Truck Stops - restarurant, fuel stations, and grocery stores. It would make it tricky to ban smoking in an area where they are sold in the same building.

Also in some areas to smoking is a major commodity for local businesses. Stop people from smoking and it hurts there businesses.

Oh and by the way, I am a smoker and I do not smoke in my own home or other peoples homes unless they allow it or do it themselves. I have no problem with walking out side in mid winter if I feel like a cigarette. If a restauranturer desides he does not want to have smoking in his establishment, I can always choose to go elsewhere or stay home. No big deal!

Answer 5

I am a smoker, and I think they should allow smoking late nights, with one stipulation: Adequate ventillation systems. Smoking is enjoyed by many, many people, and eating is a major trigger with smoking. Someone is more likely to stay around, and perhaps order dessert if they can sit and smoke, so that's more money from the customers who are there (point #1). Those who do smoke will simply hurry up and leave so they can smoke. Higher revenues will also be an added plus(Point #2). May people who smoke will tend to frequent restaurants if they allow smoking late nights. Also, new customers will come to the restaurant since that IS a place you can smoke. You have new business which equals more business (Point #3)

Answer 6

smoking in restaurants and bars should be up to the business owner. getting very sick of the government running our lives. smokers & drinkers pay tons of taxes, and the government loves to spend our money, but they can't let us smoke in a restaurant. that whole second-hand smoke thing is a bunch of bullshit propaganda. don't just sit there and parrot what the tv says. research it and read about it. do you want the government saying you can't serve greasy burgers and french fries, and no sausage gravy at the breakfast diner? you think all that stuff they serve to you in the restaurants are good for you? i better quit now, every time i read or talk about this subject my blood starts to boil. i better go smoke another marlboro.

Answer 7

i personally believe that smoking should be allowed in bars and bar n grill places. the reason being is that smokers and nonsmokers both have rights to enjoy their time in a restaurant and taking away the rights of the smoker to completely satisfy to the demands of the nonsmoker is not fair.
i believe that the nonsmokers have a right to not breathe smoke, but if the restaurant has the proper types of fans and ventilation in their air system, then its not an issue.
personally at bars when i have a drink i have a cigarette, a lot of smokers do, it is not an enjoyable to me to have a drink without a cigarette.

i think that after 6 or 7 pm that smoking area should be opened so that those who like to have a smoke with their beer and/or sports game, can enjoy it.

its not fair to treat smokers as second class citizens but i also understand nonsmokers not wanting to breath in smoke.
extremes are not good on either side, i think there needs to be a good compromise.

just my personal opinion. hope this helps.

Answer 8

i do no longer think of so, the smell nonetheless penetrates into each and every thing. it truly is unclean. some people who consume out late are not inevitably there to be around the human beings who smoke. Smoking is a undesirable habit and collectively because it truly is in simple terms about impossible for some human beings to provide up, what message could it deliver to assert that interior the day we care approximately sparkling air yet at night it truly is each and every guy for himself?

Answer 9

You have had some great answers so I just wish to make a comment. I am 62 yrs old and I NEVER heard ANYONE say they were allergic to cig. smoke until sometime in the late 80s. Gosh it was a brand new disease!

Answer 10

It should be up to the owner of the restaurant and not the government. Of course, that's if you still want to live in a free society. Slowly the government is taking away rights of individuals and businesses.

For the people that complain about smoking, why dont you sell your car because I am sick of smelling your fumes.....By the way, I dont smoke. People have a lot of nerve. They think because THEY dont smoke that ALL businesses that THEY DONT own should have to be smoke free. Let the business owner decide what is right for HIS business.